Mr. W.P. Day is
now clearing the timber from Mr. E.L. Brady’s young grove in Turnbull
Hammock. Mr. Day can claim the credit
for having helped to make every orange grove in LaGrange.
Delightful weather in Florida, while people are being
frozen to death in other parts of our country.
Mr. L.R.
Decker’s horse received a serious injury to the hind leg from coming in contact
with a barbed wire fence, last week.
The ladies will
call the Bazar or Fair, to be held on the 13th and 14th,
proximo, St. Valentine’s Fair. The
prominent feature will be St. Valentine‘s post office, which will undoubtedly,
be a great attraction for the young folks.
A party of about
a dozen started for the ocean beach, on Sunday, but owing to the light winds
did not get any further than Black Point, so they returned about five o’clock
in the evening declaring they had a
good time “alle samee.”
The tourists are
commencing to arrive in larger numbers now.
The train yesterday afternoon was crowded.
The rumors that
were afloat, on Tuesday, that a deaf mute printer named John Hale, who has been
at work at the STAR office, was run over by the cars at Sanford, on Monday, are
probably true. Hale left Titusville on
Sunday or Monday, and left a note addressed to the editor of the STAR, stating
that he was tired of Titusville and was going to the far west-Wyoming or
Montana-where rent was not so high, and where he could get remunerative
employment. Some of Hale’s friends here
seem to think he may have committed suicide, as he had been very despondent of
late.
The Governor has designated Wednesday, the 8th of February, as Arbor Day for 1888, especially recommends its appropriate observance in the way of planting trees and shrubs for the beautifying of public grounds.
The Governor has designated Wednesday, the 8th of February, as Arbor Day for 1888, especially recommends its appropriate observance in the way of planting trees and shrubs for the beautifying of public grounds.
Married Conductors
Preferred
The railroad companies, as a rule,
greatly prefer that their conductors should be men of family for the two fold
reason that they are more easily located when wanted, and, for the influence
for good that a loving wife and affectionate children may have over him. “A man will often hesitate before doing
wrong which might send him to the penitentiary when he has a wife and children
at home to look after and care for,” remarked a railroad superintendent
yesterday. This led him to say that the
fatigues of the long run made the conductors anxious for the peace and quiet of
home, and when they have one they can nearly always be found at it.
Conductors dissipate very little
nowadays. The man who drinks, even when
off duty is not the proper party to intrust with the lives of a great number of
people. It is a rare thing to see one
of them in a barroom, and even if seen there he does not tarry long. One of the
oldest and most popular conductors in St. Louis is a present laying off with no
prospect of securing a job again soon.
He has be resting for a year.
When the superintendent for whom he worked was asked the reason for his
enforced idleness he candidly answered that there was nothing against the man
except his failing of taking an occasional drink. The company could not afford to employ men who tippled for such
responsible work when there were so many good and temperate men anxious to fill
the same positions.---Globe-Democrat
*All spelling is as it was in the "Florida Star"
